Potential Use of Agile Methods in Selected DoD Acquisitions: Requirements Development and Management

Abstract

Adoption of methodologies that generally come under the umbrella of "Agile" in the software development community includes consideration of how those adopting agile methods interface with elements of the acquisition community who provide the requirements and other constraints that govern how the software part of a system will be developed. Several Agile methods have expectations about how requirements are handled that are different from the typical approach used in government acquisition settings. This qualitative research study from the Software Engineering Institute explores issues that practitioners in the field who are actively adopting Agile methods have identified in our interviews about their experience in defining and managing requirements.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2014
Accession Number
ADA609864

Entities

People

  • David J. Carney
  • Kenneth E. Nidiffer
  • Suzanne M. Miller

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Agile Software Development
  • Air Force
  • Best Practices
  • Complex Systems
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Extreme Programming
  • Governments
  • Information Systems
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Procurement
  • Software Development
  • Systems Engineering

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Economics
  • Software Engineering.